God "hath made of one blood all mankind, to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath assigned the seasons which were ordained before, and the bounds of their habitation, THAT they should seek the Lord, if so be they might have groped after him, and found him, though doubtless he be not far from every one of us. For in him we live, and move, and have our being," Acts 17:26-28

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

I live in Baltimore.
I heard your commencement speech at JohnsHopkinsUniversity
on C-Span this Saturday evening. Now it is Sunday afternoon. I have been to
worship this morning and have now a need to preface what I wrote by saying I do
not hate you. I disagree with your views, but do not condemn you for them. We
all have views and the freedom that our nation has extended all for the
expression of personal views is a gift and liberty other nations do not
enjoy. Because of that I want to respond
to your views. I will not always be as gentle as I might be; sometimes the need
to confront requires a severity which almost bruises the one confronted. SOME
ONE has to be correct in order that we be corrected. I have sought to be
corrected by God in the Messiah Jesus. What I have become for that seeking you
must discern.

In your address you appealed to the graduates, those you
called smarter and better educated than your self, to educate you. And you
quoted “Prince.” I will begin by quoting two of Baltimore’s finest:

“Only God can judge me.” ~ TuPac

“Drop out of school, go to the library and educate yourself.”
~ Frank Zappa

I spent a year and a half in college in 1969 and 70. I
dropped out after President Nixon bombed Cambodia to shut down the flow of
war material coming from Communist China. After that it took me around 30 years
to get to the library and begin my education. I have been at it now for around
16 years, or four presidencies, four times what it takes for the average student
to earn a college bachelor’s degree… unless one gets Honoraries…

Among your comments you referenced nuclear war and weapons.
It is in the news as our President soon visits Japan
and our gummint (government) has infamously ratified a nuclear treaty with Iran, the number
one sponsor of anti Western, anti Christian and anti Israeli terrorism.

In the late 1950’s we were taken from our school room desks
into the hallway lined up on our knees, and told to put our heads down to the
floor. Why? Because in those days the cold war was raging and the possibility
of a nuclear war was considered with great seriousness. To be in the hall with
head to the floor was the best we could do if the air raid sirens sounded.
Later in my youth John Kennedy was shot in Dallas,
Martin Luther King was shot in Memphis, Robert
Kennedy in Los Angeles, and even George Wallace
in Maryland.

Spike, angst is not unique to you or to the college grads
you excited in your audience. Our fear of nuclear war fails to take into
account that we are all going to die with or without a nuclear holocaust. What
“patriot” was it who said “Give me liberty or give me death?” He too failed to
see it, we are ALL going to die; free, oppressed or tyrannized, all mankind
dies. The one who dies with the most Oscars is… DEAD. Those being the smartest, or the most
foolish, or the wisest, or the drunkest, or the most immoral or the most
saintly who die are …DEAD. So much for angst…

Twenty five percent of American conceived… are DEAD before
they leave their mothers’ wombs. For THAT we should have angst as it is
homicide which now is nearly 10 times the magnitude of the genocide of the Jews
in the 2nd world war.

You also mentioned the canard of the one percenters. Canard
is one of those bruising words if one is on the receiving end BUT I MUST I ask
you: What is your net worth? PLEASE! Anyone earning $40,000 a year in this
nation is VERY rich, easily in the top 5% of the world’s income earners. My
annual income (retired) with a very small SSA check and a smaller SSI check,
plus Medicare A and B and also some gummint subsidies for rent and phone put me
in the top 25%. My calculations show that by my two small gummint checks alone I
am around 25 times richer than those “third world” people living on two dollars
a day. Go to GLOBALRICHLIST.com and
find out where you stand in comparison to the rest of humanity. I think you
must SURELY be a one percenter yourself! Is it not so?

Liberal JHU grads in Baltimore
warmly received your racial views. JHU is known for its brilliant students. How
it is that those smart grads are unaware that there is only one race, the human
race? It is beyond me, but what we call “racism” is a view which deceives many.
I like to say we all pay GREEN and BLEED red. ALL. ALL!!!

We do not choose our color. No one should be treated evilly.
Skin color is irrelevant to who and what a person is, yet sinners have mocked,
oppressed and murdered others because of their skin color. Martin Luther King
had it right, we need to discern persons by the content of their character and
NOT EVER by the color of their skin. Why does this wise statement goes unheeded
by so many people? Because rich loud mouthed media, political and Hollywood persons
with access to radio, and television shout down the truth. It has been to their
advantage to manipulate the masses by exciting bigotry. Those who enjoy the
limelight ought to use their influence to heal humanity, not to profit by
making an industry by inspiring reactionary prejudgment in weak persons whom
they deceive.

While white Caucasians have indeed despised other
ethnicities and Amercian whites did enslave and oppress black Africans, we dare
not and ought not to do anything but forgive them. If we do, we may then live
above their wrong headed behavior amongst all people and respect all as human, without regard to their ethnic origin or
skin shade. If we do not forgive we will condemn, we will become the judge,
jury and high executioner of others including those who simply want to live in
peace with all men. Jesus forgave the Roman soldiers who nailed Him to the
cross. Why can’t you and I forgive those who deride and defame and defile
others believing them lesser humans than themselves on account of their skin
shade? Why? They are human just like we are (I am) even if they are deceived as
we are (I am) not. Our condemnation of them may show that we judge ourselves as
better humans than they are. All have done wrong.

I don’t condemn you Spike. Unlike some whites, some
conservatives, some rich folks and even some Christians might want to see you
dead, I forgive you. Yet anyone forgiven should not EVER presume to offend the
one who forgives! Being forgiven cannot and does not permit us do any evil or
believe any evil thought or follow any evil ideology. Astonishingly God entered
our space in time and forgave sin taking away the sin of the world! Let us not
at death be taken away with our sins, but let us by faith receive God’s
forgiveness now which forgiveness does take away NOW all our sins with their
guilt and shame.

Frighteningly those who have become bitter by judging and
condemning others often rise up against those others and murder them. That is
why 6 million Jews were murdered in Nazi Germany. That is why Christians,
Muslims, Jews and others are murdered TODAY. Those who murder them cannot
forgive them.

We as humans do not trust others easily because others do
actually offend us! Yet instead of forgiving those who offend us we TOO OFTEN
swiftly condemn him or her in the courtroom of our heart to life in prison or
worse! We should not be blind to the truth: WE TOO ALSO OFFEND OTHERS! This is NOT a BLACK, WHITE, BROWN,
YELLOW or RED THING, AND WE ALL
NEED TO UNDERSTAND IT ! IT is a human thing. It is
the universal plight of man and has been since our first parents disobeyed God.

Baltimore’s former mayor and Maryland’s former
governor Martin O’Malley said the truth: “All lives matter.” For being so
truthful and yet so “politically incorrect” he was hounded by “progressives”
until he made a public apology and retraction! Long before the “black live
matter” cabals were fomented, funded, and formed to enrich their propagandists,
the children of Israel
were persecuted for their ethnic distinctions. At least this fact has a lesson
to teach as they were PURPOSELY made distinct by God from all other ethnicities.
Why? Read your Bible, Old and New “Testaments.” In my humble(?) opinion this
was the only ethnic distinction that ever mattered. One could have said that
then to God at least “Israeli lives mattered.” It was God’s plan that in the
Messiah Jesus men and women of the Jews and of all other nations would be
joined together in faith. The church was the vehicle by which He accomplished
and accomplishes this.

Although black lives weretreated cruelly by white lives when I
grew up in the 50’s and 60’s, they had been treated worse in the past. After
the civil rights era black lives were given great favor in the late 60’s, 70’s
and even until this day. But the favor was tainted with one grievous error. The
“welfare” monies given to poor black AND WHITE lives, particularly to those
women who bore children they were unable to afford, those monies as should have
been anticipated, caused the recipients to lose the normal and previously
universal motive to labor for their bread. Christians read in their book, “If a
man shall not work, he shall not eat.” No one likes a mooch. But the federal government’s social
monetary policies of the 1960’s unwittingly(?) created a whole class of fiscal dependents
and their progeny who now feel entitled to an income without laboring for it.
This is not civil rights. It is economic suicide. The money was taken from
the social security payments that the employed were promised would fund their
retirement. After the social security money was exhausted these welfare
programs became unfunded liabilities. To put the promised funds in the hands of
the people promised it the government has had to BORROW and PRINT much money.
This has contributed much to the National DEBT today of twenty trillion
dollars.

20,000,000,000,000.00 is a big number. It may be
that not even the fiscal giant Donald Trump can defray that sum and save the
nation from defaulting on this debt. Some say American is addicted to oil. WashingtonD.C.
is addicted to money.

You mentioned that the USA will soon be more BROWN
Hispanic and BLACK AfAm than WHITE Caucasian. So what! We are all human. What
will be very uncomfortable is whatever calamity may result when our GREENbacks
become worth half, a third, a tenth or even a twentieth of what they are worth
today. Nero fiddled while Rome
burned and blamed it on the Jews; THAT is historical fact. WashingtonD.C.
fiddles while its currency is burned up by unfunded liabilities, and pork which
cause increasing debt every year! People who go too deep in debt eventually
declare themselves bankrupt. The Fed has been bankrupt for perhaps 20 years.
Why does the nation survive? THAT is a topic for another discussion, but
basically there are still enough persons content to work for a living so that
even the unjust and burdensome socialist monetary policy of the federal gummint
has not YET resulted in an economic collapse. But many see that the national economic
house is on fire. So Washington
fiddles while “progressives” blame every social evil on “WHITES,” “STRAIGHTS,” THE
RICH AND CHRISTIANS and even JEWS. “Conservatives” blame everything on liberals
and progressives, media and Hollywood
personalities, not a few of whom really are one percenters! The poor and the
middle class choose sides. It seems almost every heart burns with discontent,
angst, and mistrust toward the officials they elect.

John Adams was right in saying that this national experiment
could only succeed if governed by and for moral, religious and faithful people.
Truly it is Jesus who has the answers which will make us free, free to walk
with Him into everlasting life.

Sincerely, David

P.S. On the same day I heard your speech on C-Span, Clarence
Thomas’ speech to HillsdaleCollege was broadcast. I
hope you will take the time to read it and ask, “Is my desire for justice worth
casting mercy aside?” Almost without exception the same standard (of justice)
we hold up for other to measure up to does also condemn us as not measuring up.
Look honestly for that. It is in refusing to believe that we fall short that we
become the definition of hypocrisy.

To become smart, and to be educated, start by taking the
advice of the book of Proverbs:

Proverbs 29:18 Without aVisionis a people made naked, And whoso is
keeping the law, O his happiness!

Proverbs 29:18 Where thereis no vision, the people perish: but he
that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Proverbs 29:18 Without a prophetic vision, the
people throw off all restraint; but he who keeps Torah is happy.

H2377

חזון

châzôn

khaw-zone'

From H2372; a sight (mentally), that is, a dream,
revelation, or oracle: - vision.

People are uninhibited and lawless if
they have no châzôn.

Proverbs 1:1-33

The proverbs
of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, are for learning about wisdom and
discipline; for understanding words expressing deep insight; for gaining an
intelligently disciplined life, doing what is right, just and fair; for
endowing with caution those who don't think and the young person with knowledge
and discretion. Someone who is already
wise will hear and learn still more; someone who already understands will
gain the ability to counsel well; he will understand proverbs, obscure
expressions, the sayings and riddles of the wise. The reverence and awe of the
Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. My
son, heed the discipline of your father, and do not abandon the teaching of
your mother; they will be a garland to grace your head, a medal of honor for
your neck. My son, if sinners entice you, don't go along with them. Suppose
they say, "Come with us: we'll ambush somebody and kill him, we'll waylay
some harmless soul, just for fun; we'll swallow him alive, like the grave,
whole, like those who descend to the pit; we'll find everything he has of
value, we'll fill our homes with loot! Throw in your lot with us; we'll share a
common purse" —my son, don't go along with them, don't set foot on their
path; their feet run to evil, they rush to shed blood. For in vain is the net
baited if any bird can see it; rather, they are ambushing themselves to shed
their own blood, waylaying themselves. So are the ways of all greedy for gain —
it takes the lives of those who get it. Wisdom calls aloud in the open air and
raises her voice in the public places; she calls out at streetcorners and
speaks out at entrances to city gates: "How long, you whose lives have no
purpose, will you love thoughtless living? How long will scorners find pleasure
in mocking? How long will fools hate knowledge? Repent when I reprove — I will
pour out my spirit to you, I will make my words known to you. Because you
refused when I called, and no one paid attention when I put out my hand, but
instead you neglected my counsel and would not accept my reproof; I, in turn,
will laugh at your distress, and mock when terror comes over you —yes, when
terror overtakes you like a storm and your disaster approaches like a
whirlwind, when distress and trouble assail you. Then they will call me, but I
won't answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they won't find me. Because they
hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, they refused my
counsel and despised my reproof. So they will bear the consequences of their
own way and be overfilled with their own schemes. For the aimless wandering of
the thoughtless will kill them, and the smug overconfidence of fools will
destroy them; but those who pay attention to me will live securely, untroubled
by fear of misfortune."

Proverbs 4:23

(AMP) Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance
and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.

(CEV) Carefully guard your thoughts because they
are the source of true life.

(CJB) Above everything else, guard your heart; for
it is the source of life's consequences.

(Geneva) Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for
thereout commeth life.

(JPS) Above all that thou guardest keep thy heart;
for out of it are the issues of life.

(KJV+) KeepH5341
thy heartH3820 with allH4480H3605
diligence;H4929 forH3588 out ofH4480
it are the issuesH8444 of life.H2416

(KJVR) Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of
it are the issues of life.

(YLT) Above every charge keep
thy heart, For out of it are the outgoings of life.

Therefore

And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have it. Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for,believe that yereceive them, and ye shall have them.And whensoever ye stand praying,forgive,if ye have aught against any one; that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. Mark 11:22-25

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